Gorillas in the Mist by Dian Fossey

Gorillas in the Mist



Download Gorillas in the Mist




Gorillas in the Mist Dian Fossey
Language: English
Page: 235
Format: pdf
ISBN: 061808360X, 9780618083602
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

Amazon.com Review

In 1963, an occupational therapist from Kentucky, in uncertain health and spirits, traveled to central Africa in the quixotic hope of seeing a mountain gorilla in its natural habitat. Dian Fossey had read everything she could about the reclusive and much-feared animal, and she returned from her trip convinced that most of the books were wrong.

During her seven-week stay in Africa, Fossey had a chance encounter with the famed primatologists Mary and Louis Leakey, who encouraged her to follow her dream of living among the mountain gorillas and learning their ways. In 1967 she did just that, setting up a camp on the slopes of the 14,000-foot Virunga Volcanoes of Rwanda and studying four gorilla families there. Although it took them some time to accept Fossey's presence among them, she was immediately impressed by their peaceful nature and by their generous, guileless behavior--so unlike the images found in popular culture.

But, Fossey discovered, despite their peaceable way of life, the gorillas had many enemies in the form of poachers who hunted them for their hands, skins, and heads--ghastly remains sold to the tourist market. Much of Fossey's thoughtful but often rightly angry memoir Gorillas in the Mist is a well-reasoned plea for the protection of the gorillas and the suppression of the poachers' black market. That argument found a wide audience when her book was published in 1983, but Fossey's work remains unfinished: she was murdered, probably by those very poachers, in 1985, and today there are fewer than 650 mountain gorillas in the wild. To read Gorillas in the Mist is a first step for anyone concerned with their preservation, and that of other wild species everywhere. --Gregory McNamee
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Review

"A classic of its kind."

Newsweek

"A fascinating combination of breathtaking adventure and absolute devotion to a cause." -- Farley Mowat

MORE EBOOKS:
Ultimate Comics Avengers: Blade vs. the Avengers epub free download







Tags: Gorillas in the Mist ebook pdf epub djvu mobi rar
Gorillas in the Mist pdf epub djvu free download
Download Gorillas in the Mist free ebook pdf epub
Gorillas in the Mist read online free book
Gorillas in the Mist cheap ebook for kindle and nook
Dian Fossey ebooks and audio books
Gorillas in the Mist download pdf epub rar rapidshare mediafire fileserve 4shared torrent depositfiles scribd